"Richard Jay Schaap" was an United States/American sportswriting/sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.

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I also love the controversy of it. Even if I didn't think he should be up that high, I like the controversy it created.

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

I think it's a labor of love for everybody who was involved with it.

I always thought of him as a stoic, solid person, that I think was typical of that era of the 1950s, ... People came out of the war years with great hope and great faith in the future. Unitas sort of represented that.

It was the opportunity, ... to work with Tom Wolfe and Breslin and Red Smith. If you're a journalist, that's who you want to be with. (Legendary theater critic) Walter Kerr used to use my typewriter, I was so proud.

I think anybody is entitled to vote for whomever they want, and I think Secretariat does qualify as an athlete.

I think I dozed off before the kickoff, but I woke in time to watch Scott make his [two] interceptions. I wasn't alert enough to watch Manny Fernandez make his [17] tackles.

All of journalism is a shrinking art, ... So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.